Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.” “What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inquired Jessamine.
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Related Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't unde... CASSANDRA CLARE Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ... JOE ABERCROMBIE Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answe... SARAH DESSEN Wait,” he said. “That’s not a word.” I looked down to where, in a moment of despe... RICHELLE MEAD Closed door means knock," Elena said to Clay, shooing him out. You've been in here for two hour... KELLEY ARMSTRONG Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... GERMANY KENT Really, awfully, terribly, I had a sudden attack of hiccups. I was staring at the Doctor, murderousl... JAMES GOSS Will pointed a finger accusingly in their direction. "You're ganging up on me. Is this how it's goin... CASSANDRA CLARE Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town<... CASSANDRA CLARE Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you... HENRY SCOTT HOLLAND Turn to the wind, I dare you For time is but a space that is captured Live in fear or peac... F.N.COLLIER Breathing heavily near his ear as he rested his head next to mine, I whispered, “I wish we could s... L.J. KENTOWSKI She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?... CASSANDRA CLARE A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I sa... EMILY DICKINSON Ah forever!" I said. "I have such a love of that word, forever." "Yes, it is a timeless word," ... ANNE RICE I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else." "Maybe it is." He tugg... J. LYNN When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched fo... RAINBOW ROWELL They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I don’t understand what makes them come out like that!”“Hunger,” said Jem. “Were you think... CASSANDRA CLARE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The key word coming into the week was fear and that fear didn't turn to panic so the key word going ... CHARLES PAYNE So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and ya... CASSANDRA CLARE If it's one person's word against another's, you have reasonable doubt built in right away. I th... JAMES MCKAY There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English." "The word for what?"... SCOTT WESTERFELD [Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him ... CASSANDRA CLARE Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a lit... ILONA ANDREWS As I swallowed the last bite of my bagel, my fear gave way to anger. “And just what the hell did h... LISA SHEARIN I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER We didn't even have to say a word, the way we looked at each other said so much more. It was like an... ZEPPELIN HARLOW ROSE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close ... ROSE CHRISTO Any sign of them yet? he asked. Will looked at him. 'Yes', he said. 'A party of fifty Scotti came th... JOHN FLANAGAN What. Are. You. Doing. Here?” Day snapped each word this time. "You’re not the only o... A.E. VIA A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. ELLEN HOPKINS So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch'd me from the past, And all at once ... ALFRED TENNYSON Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven. Fear in your mind ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the s... COLUM MCCANN Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just ma... CASSANDRA CLARE Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. Th... JOSEPH LEWIS He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th... CASSANDRA CLARE In a manner of speaking. As we intend for you to found a dynasty. And that dynasty will rule society... JAMES PATTERSON He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was ... KURT VONNEGUT Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonab... STEPHEN LAW It was him against the flames and he revelled in it. Logan was good at his job. Exceptionally g... AMY ANDREWS Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly ... LES MARTIN I don’t mind losing in this game of love, if it means You will be the winner. KAMAND KOJOURI To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" "I had no ch... CASSANDRA CLARE Deciding she couldn't really be bothered searching for the illusive closures, she was sitting quietl... NALINI SINGH Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten. Yet fa... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Whose SUV is this?” I asked once we were out of Carnal. “Mine.” He answered. I looke... KRISTEN ASHLEY Bianca, whore is just a cheap word people use to cut each other down," he said. His voice softer. "I... KODY KEPLINGER All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. "Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's n... HARPER LEE Rankin put down his glass and stared at him coldly. “I beg your pardon?” he said. “I gather th... NAOMI NOVIK You bit de Quincey," he said. "You fool. He's a vampire. You know what it means to bite a vampire." ... CASSANDRA CLARE When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the fro... HORACE Self-centered people often get angry when someone tells them no. Stan said yes out of fea... HENRY CLOUD Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON Don't worry I won't embarrass you. I'm just going to check out his friends. Maybe his grades an... KAITLIN SCOTT Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who pr... STEPHEN COPE The traditional worship setting is both the inspiration for faith and fellowship, and the barrier to... PAUL G. JOHNSON Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the... CHINUA ACHEBE There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear... PHILIP T. M. Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.] One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor... JAMES GOSS I’m used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tu... LAUREN OLIVER She looked at him and smiled. “Hey, you took my advice about the skinnier tie.” She reached up a... JULIE JAMES What the hell," I said, pushing off the wall, ready to take off the head of whatever stupid salesper... SARAH DESSEN Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just sa... OSCAR WILDE With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. PAUL CELAN Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the wi... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?" Andrew gazed at him in silence for a mi... NORA SAKAVIC What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ... MITCH ALBOM A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silenc... YUNUS EMRE [Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amu... CASSANDRA CLARE Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... Wha... JOHN FLANAGAN Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But G... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unsp... T.S. ELIOT Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,” he said, “That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and qui... LAURELL K. HAMILTON As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a w... J.K. ROWLING When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose i... LEWIS CARROLL Look at me; look at me. Can you see; can you see? I am here; you are there. No more f... DEBASISH MRIDHA He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Mind has door. A password can open it. That word is stored safely in your heart, waiting ... TOBA BETA Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. CONOR MCGREGOR She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. LANG LEAV Do me a favor, Ro,” Day said calmly. “What’s that?” Ronowski peeked around Johnso... A.E. VIA And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made ... CASSANDRA CLARE This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all the run... KRESLEY COLE Jail's are a spooky place," remarked Bill, trying to match the pace of detective Adam. "O... RAO UMAR JAVED Astrid found the hem of his T-shirt and pulled it up over his head. She unbuckled his belt and shove... MICHAEL GRANT Don't be scared," Willa Mae said. I looked at her. "Aren't you scared?" Willa Mae looked a... MARGARET MCMULLAN I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is,... PADGETT POWELL He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We both know I’m not a gentlem... CATE TIERNAN It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not ... THOMAS HARRIS No one expects Will Herondale to live past nineteen, and no one will be sorry to see him go, either ... CASSANDRA CLARE At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of th... DOUGLAS ADAMS Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything star... IYANLA VANZANT Are you still on Minnesota time?” I asked. “I am on whatever time makes this call last long... MAGGIE STIEFVATER
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Well, not you, Simon." "... CASSANDRA CLARE Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a minister... CASSANDRA CLARE And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This o... CASSANDRA CLARE Take off your shirt." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to attack you," she said i... CASSANDRA CLARE Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. CASSANDRA CLARE I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill ... CASSANDRA CLARE aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things... CASSANDRA CLARE Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it? CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin... CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th... CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o... CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi... CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ... CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ... CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Fil... CASSANDRA CLARE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou... CASSANDRA CLARE In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter... CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s... CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be. CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be. CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ... CASSANDRA CLARE It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me... CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l... CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it. CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places. CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that... CASSANDRA CLARE If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be... CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.” “I just wo... CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better. CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia... CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door... CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul... CASSANDRA CLARE So--what's it like, being a vampire?" "Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ... CASSANDRA CLARE Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in res... CASSANDRA CLARE Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back. CASSANDRA CLARE While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. CASSANDRA CLARE By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl... CASSANDRA CLARE It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to... CASSANDRA CLARE Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of cou... CASSANDRA CLARE A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'... CASSANDRA CLARE Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a... CASSANDRA CLARE Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki... CASSANDRA CLARE [Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.” “Does he know that?” said Livvy. Julian sough... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu... CASSANDRA CLARE The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose. CASSANDRA CLARE How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of... CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said. “It was a little sexy,” Simon said. He felt much better, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al... CASSANDRA CLARE The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. CASSANDRA CLARE